Library of Past Lectures
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The Final Mission of RHIC: Unveiling the Last Chapter of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with sPHENIX
July 31, 2025 | JaeBeom Park
sPHENIX is a large detector housed at Brookhaven National Laboratory, designed to learn more about quark-gluon plasma — a state of matter that existed for a brief moment after the Big Bang. The detector collects data on millions of particle collisions per second from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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Finger-printing a nuclear reactor with neutrinos
July 25, 2019 | Thomas Langford
Neutrinos have been the most consistently surprising particle of the last few decades. The onset of high-precision experiments has lead to the discovery of neutrino oscillations, possible evidence for beyond the Standard Model sterile neutrinos, and the beginnings of neutrino-based geophysics.
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Capturing the Inner Beauty of the Quark Gluon Plasma
July 27, 2018 | Jin Huang
For the 2018 Sambamurti Lecture, Jin Huang explains b-quark physics in quark gluon plasma and current measurements. He also discusses the program for the planned sPHENIX experiment and its relevance to an electron ion collider—a next-generation particle collider to study the "strong nuclear force" and the role of gluons throughout the universe.
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The search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider
July 20, 2017 | James Hirschauer
Hirschauer introduces the Large Hadron Collider and its experiments, discuss some of the problems with the Standard Model, and explain how we use our understanding of those problems to search for new particles and other new phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Electron-positron tomography at STAR: seeking symmetry in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
August 1, 2016 | Lijuan Ruan
Ruan explains how she uses electron-positron tomography from quark-antiquark annihilations to study that mirror-like chiral symmetry, a characteristic that "broke"—resulting in the formation of 99 percent of the visible mass in the universe—and is thought to be restored during ion collisions at RHIC.
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Seeking the Origin of Asymmetry
July 21, 2015 | Xin Qian
In this 2015 Sambamurti Lecture, Xin Qian of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department explains the process physicists use to design a scientific experiment aiming to address the question of why we are made of matter, not antimatter. He then reviews scientists' progress and discusses challenges for the future.
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Higgs Discovery: How It Happened and What It Means
July 16, 2013 | Elliot Lipeles
During this Sambamurti Memorial Lecture, Lipeles explains why physicists were looking for the Higgs boson, why they needed high-energy particle collisions, how they knew they found a new particle, and probing this new particle at the LHC.
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'The Trouble With Neutrinos'
July 12, 2012 | Dan Dwyer
In this 2012 Sambamurti Memorial Lecture, Dan Dwyer explains that neutrinos are considered the “ghosts†of the particle world, present everywhere but rarely seen.
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Expecting the Unexpected: Neutrino Physics at MiniBooNE
July 20, 2010 | Geralyn Zeller
Zeller discusses recent results from the ongoing Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) at Fermilab, an experiment designed to investigate the signals of oscillating neutrinos. She will also include a projection for what the future holds. "If history is any indication, we are in store for an exciting ride," says Zeller.
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Matter-Antimatter Transformation at 3-Trillion Hertz
July 20, 2006 | Ivan Furic
2006 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Ivan Furic for his contributions to the CDF measurement of Bs mixing.
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Size Matters: The space-time geometry of subatomic collisions
July 22, 2004 | Michael Lisa
2004 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Michael Lisa for his contributions to the understanding of two particle correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC.
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1:09:24
Like Dustmaids Down a Drafty Hall: Neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
July 24, 2003 | Joshua Klein
2003 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Joshua Klein for his contributions to the success of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment.
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How to Measure a Triangle: Probing the Matter/Antimatter Asymmetry in the Universe
July 18, 2002 | James Olsen
2002 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to James Olsen for his work on probing CP violation with the BABAR detector.
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RHIC and the Pursuit of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
July 14, 2001 | Jeffery Mitchell
2001 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Jeffery Mitchel for his contributions to the PHENIX experiment at RHIC.
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1:03:41
How Tasty are Muons in a Donut?
July 14, 2000 | Ralf Prigl
2000 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Ralf Prigl for his contributions to the measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment.
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The Spin of the Proton
July 22, 1999 | Emlyn Hughes
1999 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Emlyn Hughes for his work on elucidating the spin structure of the nucleon.
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K -> pi,nu,nubar
July 29, 1998 | Akira Konaka
1998 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Akira Konaka for his work on K -> pi,nu,nubar.
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1:09:10
Precision EW Physics at D0
July 24, 1997 | Greg Landsberg
1997 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Greg Landsberg for his study of the ZZgamma couplings.
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The Top Quark and Beyond
July 27, 1995 | Brian Winer
1995 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Brian Winer for his contributions to the discovery of the top quark.
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1:02:58
Spinning Protons and Siberian Snakes
August 9, 1994 | Thomas Roser
1994 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Thomas Roser for development of the concept of the "Partial Siberian Snake" to correct the depolarizing imperfection resonances in a circular accelerator and for leadership in the successful implementation of a partial snake at the AGS in E880.
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1:06:49
Rare Kaon Decay at the AGS
July 28, 1994 | Jack Ritchie
1994 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to Jack Ritchie for his outstanding contributions to the study of rare and forbidden KL decays at the BNL Alternating Gradient Synchrotron.
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1:04:48
Rare Kaon Decays at the AGS
July 30, 1992 | John Haggerty
1992 Sambamurti Memorial Lectureship awarded to John Haggerty for his contributions to AGS Rare K Decay Experiment 787.
